This piece is quite different than my original vision. My style has evolved toward less cluttered, sparser and cleaner designs. A far cry from my days of embellishing/beading every piece of fabric that stood still long enough!
After adding a facing to the Red Tree wall quilt, I had to admit the piece was simply too plain, even for me. So now it's been married with a beautiful Japanese print that I machine quilted and bound. It's become a 'quilt on a quilt!'
RED TREE - 31" x 27.5"
Hand-dyed silk nail, cotton batik, Japanese print fabric, appliqued
and machine quilted.
Update - I'm not sure my explanation was very clear......here's a detail of the 'quilt on a quilt'. The center piece is a stand alone wall quilt.....placed on a larger quilted background....it's not a border in the normal sense.
6 comments:
That Japanese border print really makes the piece special, beautiful!!
Beautiful!
That's the perfect border print! Lovely
Very nice marriage. I've done this kind of finish myself - I call the bottom piece a mount and often just fuse the fabric to Decor Bond so that I don't have to quilt it. Then you can attach your feature quilt in a variety of ways. I like the one cherry falling off the edge at the bottom. Lovely piece.
Great solution, it really sets the tree off.
This was a perfect solution. The print really offsets the smaller quilt beautifully. You would never know that it wasn't part of the original plan.
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